Bramble out as Allardyce rebuilds

[Tilla]

Bramble does not figure in Sam Allardyce's plans

Newly-appointed Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce has wasted little time in releasing five players.


Defenders Titus Bramble, 25, and 31-year-old Australian Craig Moore have not been offered new contracts.
Czech keeper Pavel Srnicek, 39, and left-back Olivier Bernard, 27, have also been shown the door.

Allardyce has also opted not to make United States defender Oguchi Onyewu's loan period from Belgian club Standard Liege into a permanent move.

Bramble joined Newcastle for £5m from Ipswich in 2002, but his time has been blighted by costly errors.

Experienced defender Moore arrived on Tyneside in July 2005 from Borussia Moenchengladbach, following two spells at Rangers either side of a loan period at Crystal Palace.

Newcastle signed Bernard on a free transfer from Lyon in August 2000 and in his first five years made 82 League starts.

But his failure to hold down a place in the past couple of years has seen him loaned out to Southampton and Rangers.

Much-travelled Czech Republic international keeper Srnicek has ended his second spell at St James' Park.

He first signed for the Magpies for £250,000 from Banik Ostrava in February 1991 and made 148 League starts during a six-year spell when he was Newcastle's number one. Srnicek returned to Banik in August 1998, but then embarked on a tour of clubs, including Sheffield Wednesday, Brescia, Portsmouth and West Ham.

[Jawge]

maybe that L back position is for?

[Mosiah]

Zeppo, is Sam mad?!?!